Critics' Choice

TELEVISON

OLLIE HOPNOODLE'S HAVEN OF BLISS (PBS, May 31, 9 p.m. on most stations). An all-American family takes an ill-starred vacation in this Jean Shepherd- scripted comedy on American Playhouse.

TONY AWARDS (CBS, June 4, 9 p.m. EDT). Broadway scarcely generated enough musicals to fill out the nomination list this year, but that won't stop TV from paying its annual tribute to the Great (sort of) White Way.

ART

AMERICAN PAINTINGS FROM THE MANOOGIAN COLLECTION, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Never publicly exhibited before, this notable collection of 19th century works ranges from Hudson River landscapes to frontier genre scenes, from Sargent to Raphaelle Peale. June 4 through Sept. 4.

INIGO JONES: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, Drawing Center, New York City. Designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and antiquarian, Jones (1573-1652) was the greatest royal architect England ever produced. This impeccable show reveals the technical and pictorial skill with which he led English architecture into a new, classically based grandeur and amplitude. Through July 22.

10 + 10: CONTEMPORARY SOVIET AND AMERICAN PAINTERS, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. A double first: an unprecedented joint showcase of younger artists (including Americans David Salle, Donald Sultan and Ross Bleckner) and the first exhibit ever organized to tour museums in both countries. Through Aug. 6.

MUSIC

DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped a do.

CYNDI LAUPER: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (Epic). It takes a while for her to find her pace, but when she hits Side 2, Lauper burns up the tracks. Warmhearted, rambunctious and (in the words of one memorable tune) winningly Insecurious.

BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE QUINTESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY, VOL. 5 (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces). Working with legendary producer John Hammond and pianist Teddy Wilson, Billie turned out some of her greatest hits in these 1937-38 sessions: He's Funny That Way, My Man, Nice Work If You Can Get It. All that and more on this outstanding digital reissue.

THEATER

GRANDMA MOSES. Cloris Leachman portrays the centenarian farmwife and primitivist painter in a one-woman tour, this week in Los Angeles.

ELEEMOSYNARY. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods) encapsulates feminism through three generations of strong-minded women in a deft, dark comedy transferred from off-Broadway to the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.

MOVIES

HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING. While plotting a sales campaign for a new pimple cream, a British ad exec develops a bizarre ailment: a boil on the neck that has a mouth of its own and talks back with a vengeance. With black humor and a weird, Kafkaesque sensibility, director Bruce Robinson delivers a biting satire of Thatcherite society.

EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy.

THE RAINBOW. Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love, Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence. Given a story worth telling and a heroine (Sammi Davis) worth caring about, Russell can still direct with passion and poise.

BOOKS

THE RUSSIA HOUSE by John le Carre (Knopf; $19.95). A document discounting Soviet missile capabilities is smuggled to the West. Never mind glasnost, perestroika and the cold war thaw. Are these grubby notebooks full of facts and figures true? The quest for the answer produces the author's most hair- raising thriller since The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.

SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie.

T.E. LAWRENCE: THE SELECTED LETTERS edited by Malcolm Brown (Norton; $27.50). The enigmatic hero of Lawrence of Arabia tells his own story in letters that illuminate the shadows of his personality.